![]() ![]() ![]() Rosemarie Trockel, Untitled (There is no unhappier creature under the sun than a fetishist who longs for a lady's slipper and has to make do with a whole woman K.K.:F), 1991. ‘I keep my eyes open,’ she told artist Jutta Koether in a rare 1987 conversation for Flash Art, ‘and I trust them more than the words of the critics.’ Given how often those words fall short, her point is well made, though not without a dose of anti-intellectual revanchism. It didn’t much matter to Trockel what Johnson could or couldn’t figure out. After unearthing a couple of Freudian puns in Trockel’s work, Johnson bowed to the fact that they presented only ‘flickering hints’ of sense. In 1988, reviewing the German artist’s 1988 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for Art in America, Ken Johnson encountered assemblages that appeared ‘as puzzles, which produced the tantalizing feeling that you might be able to figure them out’. To write about Rosemarie Trockel is to enter the ranks of the bewildered. ![]()
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